QC for a dairy plant. We cook all the nutrients and enzymes out of milk, add bad synthetic vitamins that are toxic (they must be toxic, they are bright yellow), steal the cream from your milk and make it into (tasty) ice cream, add artificial colors and flavors to things, use corn syrup solids and nonfat dry milk in formulations. In short, we’re evil and trying to kill you, apparently. And you?
I like to tell people all the natural, unprocessed things that are not good for you.
You don’t like antifungal agents in your bread? OK, how would you like liver cancer. Aflatoxins are the most potent mutagens ever tested and are made by molds that commonly grow on bread
You don’t want enzymes denatured in pasteurization? Fine, you can get tuburculosis or hemolytic uremic syndrome.
No synthetic vitamins? Sure, but before we fortified grain foods, an astonishingly high number of people were nutrient deficient. I think it was WWII where they were rejecting about 1 in 20 applicants to armed forces for nutrient deficiency-related problems.
No processed foods? Fine, but I don’t know what you are going to eat come winter unless you have stocked up on potatoes and turnips in your root cellar. We process food to ensure plenty of cheap, nutritious, safe food available at all times. Processing many foods actually makes them more nutritous by making the nutrients more available.
What the food industry does not do is add random chemicals for no good reason. All food ingredients (with exceptions for things that have a 60+ year history of safe use) have to be tested and proved safe and then have to be included only in approved food in highly regulated amounts. Additives have to be there for a reason and “hiding low quality” is not a reason. We have to prove that the food was high quality when received and that it was handled in a safe manner until such time as it was shipped to the consumer.
Additives don’t make you fat, they don’t make your kids hyper or autistic, they don’t damage your kidneys, liver, intestines, or brain, they don’t cause diabetes. They don’t hide bad manufacturing processes, they don’t make food production cheaper or easier. There is no industry-wide cover-up, our industry is too big and widespread to have a conspiracy.